Chapter 10: The Rating Game.
""HEY!"" A bold and a glasses wearing boy yell at a crouching brown hairs boy looking through a hold in the side of a building. He turns around.
"Yes?"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE AGAIN!?" The bold one yells.
"THIS IS OUR PEEP HOLE!" The one with glasses yells just as loud.
*SCREAM*
All three boys look to the building and hear shuffling and the loud bang of metal lockers slamming shut.
The down hair boy casually stands up. "Well, this is my cue to leave, have fun you two." In about a second, a dust cloud filled where the boy used to be and the boy was far away. At the time, a mob of girls crowd around the hole in the wall.
"You two again!?" "When are you going to learn your lesson!?" Two girls yell.
"It was that new kid again!" "We found him peeping on you!" The two boys tell in fear.
"I don't see him. Besides, he hasn't been to school on two weeks." "I wander where he when." "Wasn't Rias and Akeno gone too?" "Oh and that new girl, Asia too." "And Koneko and Yuuto." "I heard that Asia and Issei got into the Occult Research Club." The girls start to chat among themselves about the missing group. The tow tried to use this time to make their escape, but failed when the tripped on each other.
One girl walks forward and cracks her knuckles. "Where do you two think you're going!?"
The two look in fear as they screamed and run, run as fast as they could, but the more fit girls quickly caught up.
"We need to find that Issei guy and make him pay!" The bold one yelled to the glasses. "Where did he run off to!?"
"""Get back here!""" The girls yell.
Issei stands at the gate to the school waiting to take Asia home. 'Tomorrow is the day of the game...' Issei sighs. 'And I never figured out how to rid all the clothes off in one go.' Issei closes his eyes and leans against the gate. "I promise I'll do my best to win for you Rias."
""HEY YOU!""
Issei opens his eyes to see two fists head toward his face. His instincts kick in and he jumps on top of the gate. 'Damn!'
The two boys look with wide eyes as they see Issei land on the top of the 5ft high gate from the ground.
"The fuck?" "The hell?" They step back.
"Damn." Issei cursed at himself as he hops down. Issei looks to his left and smiles. "Why did you two just try to punch me!?" Issei acts angry.
At that moment, a mob of girls arrives.
"I don't know why you two hate and or try to hurt me when I didn't do anything to you!"
The girls look at the argument.
"You used our peep hole to peep on the girls, and we're here to hurt you for putting the blame on us!" Bold yells.
"I did nothing of the sort. I've been here waiting for my friend to arrive." Issei says calmly.
"You two! Always blaming this guy! He's been here for a few weeks now. You're just jealous of him." One girl yells. A few of the girls surround the two and cuts them off of Issei as the drag them away.
"Help!" "Let go of use so we can beat the crap out of him!" They yell.
A light reddish-blond haired girl and brown haired girl stay by Issei and bow.
"We are sorry for what just happened." The blond girl says.
Issei taps their shoulders and they rise. "No no. It's fine. And please don't bow. I'm not royalty or anything." Issei smiles.
"But you're the second Prince of Kuoh and you're also in the Occult Research Club, right?" The other one blushes as she says this.
Issei's rubs the back of his head. "Ha, I will admit I am in the OCR, but I'm no Prince of Kuoh."
Both girls brush and squeal. "Well anyway. We are sorry." Both hold out their hands to witch Issei grabs and bit fair well.
As they walk away, Issei notices a light green line coming from the girl's hands and to his hand. He looks more closely at their hands and finds the line is wrapped tightly around then and a black magic circle is around also on the back side of their hands.
'What? What is this?' Issei moves his hand and the line moves with it. 'It seems as though I'm the only one that can see them.' Something inside of Issei, instinct, tells him to snap his fingers.
"Well, here is goes." He snaps his fingers and the lines suddenly stats to shorten and the ends the used to be around his hand is speeding over to the girls. Once the ends reached the girls, nothing happened.
"Nothing." He sighs and looks down.
*SCREAM*
Issei looks up to see the two girls standing naked trying to cover themselves with their hands. A few pieces of clothes float in the air before shriveling up and disappearing. The girls fall to the ground.
"AAHH! What happened to our clothes!?" The drown hoard girl yells.
Both girls huddle together hiding before a group of girls comes and covers them from all the boys looking at the splendid sight.
Issei blinks and smiles. 'I-it worked. It worked! IT WORKED!' "Yahoo!" Issei yells as runs to the club house. "RIAS!"
Koneko look on from her spot on the branch of a tree overlooking the school yard and the events the just occurred. "Pervert." She looks over into the window of the club room to see Issei begging Rias to let him try his new move on her.
"Please please please please!" Issei begs.
"Ok, ok. Will it hurt?" Rias reluctantly asks.
"Not one bit. And thank you." Issei smiles and get to his feet.
"Ok, what do I have to do?"
"Just stand there and watch." Issei taps her shoulder and a black magic circle appears with a light green line leading to his fingers.
"You ready?" He looks happy.
"Yeah. Go for it."
Issei snaps his fingers and Rias clothes rip and tear off her body and into the air, where they shrivel up and disappear.
Rias looks down to see herself naked. With a blush, slowly covers herself. "You're special move removes clothing from people!?" She yells.
"I don't know about guys, and I don't plan on trying it on them, but women is the main purpose." Issei stands straight up and smiles. "I'm one step closer to becoming the Harem King! Haha!" Issei smiles and jumps into the air.
"Baka." Rias whispers as she walks to her shower where she has a new set of clothes.
-Later-
Issei sits on the edge of his bed. 'Tonight is the night. I'm going to best the craft out of that Chicken...why and I so nervous.'
[The times is closing in, Partner]
Issei's eyes widen. 'No. Not today. Why today?! It's could have been any other day but today!' He screamed as the giant red dragon hidden in a wall of flames.
[It's not my fault. But I can tell you it will probably happen later tonight. You can beat the Riser guy in under that time]
'If this was any other circumstance, then yes. But I have a play it carefully.'
[The red haired women...what did she ask you to do?]
'She asked, almost ordered me to not use any of my Angelic powers, unless it was necessary. There's going to be quite a few onlookers and if I use my Angelic powers..'
[Then a disturbance will occur, for an Angel has become a devil.]
'Something like that. A lot of people won't like it.'
[Hmmmmmm. Some might even argue that because you're an Angel that you meant to kill Riser.]
'Most likely. So I have to go through this battle only using my Demonic and Dragon powers as well as whatever boost I can get out of you.'
[One minute and fifty seconds. That's the time you have to wait.]
'Even though some might think it's not that long. It's very long seeing how it can only boost 1/5 of my power.'
[Ah, so you have felt the boost decrease as well, partner]
'I have.' Issei looks at he left arm. 'I'll win the game. I'll save Rias. And I'll become the Harem King!'
[Really?]
*Knock* *Knock*
Issei looks at the door. "Come in."
The door opens and Asia's head pokes through the crack. "Issei? Can I sit with you?" She looks scared.
"Yeah." He scoots over and pats the spot next to him. Asia walks over and sits next to him.
"I'm scared." She grabs onto is arm. Issei pats and rubs her head.
"It'll be ok. Rias and I won't let anything happen to you."
"It's not me that I'm worried about. It's everyone else. And you." She tightens her hold on him.
"It'll be alright. We'll win."
"What about your...condition?" Asia looks up at him.
"I'll be fine." Issei reassured her.
"Ok. Can I ask you something?" Asia blushes and looks at his chest.
"Yeah."
"No matter what happens. Can I stay with you...forever..?" She looks down.
"Of course. We'll always be together, Asia." Issei looks to the clock. 11:00 pm.
Everyone in the ORC stands quite in the clubroom. Grayfia walks from the shadows into light.
"Is everyone ready?" She asks.
Everyone nods, gaining a smile on her face.
"Good. I'd like to let you know, Lady Rias, that your father and brother, as well as the head of the house of Phoenix will be watching the game with the heir to the House of Sitri. And I will be the announcer for the game."
"Lucifer?" Issei grins.
"Brother is watching as well?!" Rias says.
"Of course, this does involve all of the family." Grayfia look from Rias to Issei.
"He wishes to see to good show, and the protection of his sister. And he wishes you all luck in the game. But now I must inform you about the game sense this is Rias's first Rating Game."
They all nod.
"When it becomes the time to start the battle, you will be teleported to the battlefield through this magic-circle. The location of the place is in a different dimension used for battles. You may fight with all your power. It's a disposable space so feel free to fight to your satisfaction." Grayfia informs.
'So the Devils are capable of a dimension just for a battle field. Awesome.'
"Now, would all of you please step inside this circle, then you will be teleported to the battle field and then the game will begin shortly after.
They all comply and step into the white magic circle. Once they are all in, the circle gives off a bright while light, and once it's gone. The only thing different is that Grayfia is gone.
"Did it work?" Asia asks as she looks around the room. They are still I the OCR clubroom.
"It worked, Aisa." Rias told her.
"They made the battle field look exactly as Kuoh Academy." Issei says as he looks out the window. "But the sky..." Everyone looks out the widow and looks up to see a dark sky, flowing with color.
"Wow...pretty." Asia says in wonder. Her thoughts were interrupted when a loud booming voice appeared out of nowhere.
"Welcome, Rias Gremory, Riser Phoenix and their respected peerages. This is Grayfia. I'll be announcing the game. As you might have learned, the field you will be playing on is an exact replica of The Kuoh Academy in the human world. Rias Gremory and her peerage are located in the Old School Building in the Occult Research Club clubroom, as for Riser Phoenix, he and his peerage are located on the otherwise of the school, inside the Student Counsel classroom. This game has no time limit, and you may use and destroy the field as you wish. If you are majorly injured or unconscious, you will be teleported out of the game and eliminated. Fight to your heart's content and show your power. The game will begin in a moments."
Once the announcement stopped, Rias orders her group to stand in a row. "Here, I'm giving you guy com-links, so we can communicate during the game. Now, Issei has the two objects we are able to being into the game."
Issei holds up a bag.
"What's going on?" Asia asks again.
"Well, normally, you can only bring in weapons that you've trained with and use them with your powers, Knight can bring in swords, shields and other weapons. Bishops and other magic users can bring wands or staves. But other than those, everything else is illegal. But every team can bring in only two items to help a player or the whole team. Riser mostly brought his family's Phoenix tears as healing items. But we have brought something that Issei will be using. An Exorcist's gun and Holy Water."
Issei opens the bag and retrieves a little vial of water and a gun. "Now, since Issei used to be an Exorcist, he can bring the gun in with him. But, being a holy item, they are complications to use them by normal means. So I exploited to two item rule to bring in the one thing that can hurt a Phoenix, holy items." Rias smiles. "Now, we can only use these in times of need and on Riser himself."
Everyone nods. "Since I have used these both before, I'll be the one using them. This is my gun that I used as an Exorcist, and it was specially made, by the Angels for me to use. So even if I'm a Devil, I'll still be able to use it cuz I still have my Angelic powers." Issei smiles and puts the gun in a holster in his belt.
Just then, Grayfias booming voice is heard again. "The Rating game between Rias Gremory and Riser Phoenix starts in, 5...4..."
Issei instantly summons his Boosted Gear as he rushes to the window and opens it.
"3...2.."
He narrows his eyes and a green orb forms at the end of his finger tips as he points them out the window in the direction on many Devils.
"1...Fight!"
[Dragon Shot]
The beam shoots from Issei's fingers and heads to the School building.
*Boom*
Everyone's eyes widen.
[Reset]
"Um... Riser: Four Pawns, one Rook, one Bishop. Eliminated." Grayfias voice announces the casualties.
Everyone's jaws drop as Issei just eliminated six of Risers peerage before the first minute passed in the game.
"That should even the odds and let them know who their messing with." Issei smiles *pant* *pant*
[Easy, Partner.] Ddraig's rough and calm voice is heard to everyone in the room.
"Yeah, Ddraig. But I proved my point to that Burnt Chicken."
Asia rushes to Issei to heal hi a little.
Everyone in the room calms a bit as Grayfia steps away from the microphone.
"Right after the game started, six of my son's peerage was eliminated. Interesting." An older man in a red suit says.
"Indeed Lord Phoenix. This might be more fun than we originally thought." Another older man says. His hair is as red as Rias's.
"Who do you think will win, father?" Another red hair man says, but he looks a little older then Rias.
"Well, I would say that Riser would win, but after the display I just watched. I'd say that Rias has a very high chance if winning now."
"Ah, my son may let his arrogance get ahead of him. But he will still win." Lord Phoenix says relaxed.
"Oh really now? Well how about we make a wager. If Rias wins your household will supply my household as many Phoenix tears as we want, for the rest of our clan's lives." Lord Gremory smiles.
"And if Riser wins, we will be able to use your household's resources and connections for anything we want for the rest of our clan's lives." Lord Phoenix finishes. They both nod and shack hands.
"Send someone to get this in a document." Lord Phoenix says to a servant.
"You don't think I'll keep it?"
"I think that no matter who wins, this will be a wager for both of our household's greatest wealth."
"Unbelievable." The younger red haired man says as he walks aver to Grayfia.
"My father and Lord Phoenix just mad a bet on who will win this Rating Game." He says to her.
"I heard Master Sirzechs. I just hope Lady Rias will be ok."
"I'm sure that Issei boy will protect my sister well."
Everyone looks on to the screen.
Issei and Koneko travel to the gym on the school grounds.
"Four women inside." Issei says calmly.
Koneko nods and tightens her gloves. "Let's go."
They walk into the gym and stand in the darkness. Then the lights turn on and the four women stand in the center of the gym.
"We know you're here. We watched you come in." One of the girls yells.
Issei and Koneko look over to them to find a girl in a Chinese dress, a pair of green haired twins, and the girl with the red gi and a staff.
"You get the pawns...I'll get the rook." Koneko says as she moves to side in a battle ready stance.
"Fine, fine. The twins and Mira with be fighting me. The girl in the Chinese dress will fight her." Issei points to Koneko.
"How stupid, three on one? Fine with me. Ile, Nel, grind him to bits. And Mira, don't lose this time." The girl in the dress orders.
""Yes, Xuelan!"" The twins yell in union as they pull a chainsaws from their back. ""Disassembly time!"" They yell in a happy and cute tone as they start their chainsaws and jump of Issei.
"WHAT?!" Issei freezes and runs away from the twins. "What the hell?! Chainsaws?! They have chainsaws?!" Issei yells as her dodges and runs away from them.
"Stay still!" "So I can cut you!" They yell.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh!" Issei yells. As he runs, a fist hits his face and falls backwards. "Oof."
Mira stands over Issei. "That was for last time.
Issei opens his eyes to see two chainsaws. "Ah!" Issei quickly dodges and runs.
On the other side of the gym, Koneko and Xuelan watch.
"Is that the same guy the best Mira?" She asks Koneko.
"Yeah. Stupid." They continue to fight.
'This is getting out if hand!' Issei dodges another spinning blade. 'Whoa! Ok that's enough! Time to end this!' Issei smiles and turns around to meet the twins, flying at him. He ducks under then and grabs their leg and swigs that at Mira.
"Oof!" "Ouch!" "Owie!" They yell.
Issei laughs as he notices the two green lines coming from his hand to the twins legs. "Perfect." He then runs at them and tags Mira as he continues moving forward. "Move, Koneko!" He yells.
"What?" Both Koneko and Xuelan notice him. Xuelan get tries to move, but her hand gets tagged by Issei.
"Alright!" He yells as he stops. Looking at his hand, two more strands appear, making four in total. Making sure, he follows each line to their owner. 'Good, didn't get Koneko. That would be very bad.' Issei smiles.
"Time for my ultimate move!" He yells and positions his hand in a snapping position.
"The hell?" "What's he talking about?" "As if!" "Yeah right." The four girls yell.
"...oh no..." Koneko says.
"DRESS BREAK!" Issei yells at the top of his lungs. *SNAP * he snaps his fingers and clothes start flying.
Issei looks on as the four girls clothing rip and tear off their body and shrivel into nothingness. 'Oh man. I'm going to see of tits!'
""""AHHHHHH!"""" Each girl screams as their clothes fly.
"Pervert..." Koneko says.
Issei on the other hand jumps around and takes mental pictures of every curve on the girl. 'A naked female body, so beautiful!' Issei's eyes glimmer with starts.
"How shameful!" Xuelan yells as she covers her body. She, along with the rest, are huddling together to hid themselves. "Lecherous man!" She yells again.
"Oh, coming from one of the sex slaves to a grown ass Chicken!" Issei yells back.
To this, Xuelan, and the other girls stop making a sound and blush.
"Don't think I don't know what happens in Phoenix family, especially in Risers peerage." Issei says in a serious tone. "And that one of the reasons I don't want Rias to marry him. He does need Rias of he doesn't love her and only use her as a doll." Issei starts to walk out of the gym. "Come on, Koneko." She follows.
Once they are out of the gym. Issei puts his finger in her ear. "We're done. Do it Akeno." Soon, a giant lightning bolt shoots for the sky and explodes the gym.
"Riser: Three pawns, one Room. Eliminated." Grayfia announces the elimination.
"Good...for a pervert. You're also very serious." Koneko says as she walks behind him.
"I may be a pervert, but I know how you're supposed to treat women." Issei smiles.
"Riser: One Pawn, one Knight. Eliminated." Grayfia announces.
"Well is looks like Yuuto did his job. Well done." Issei smiles. "Let's get goi..." Suddenly, Issei falls straight on his face.
Koneko gasps and runs to his side. "Issei? Issei?" She shacks him harder and harder, but he doesn't respond. "Oh no." She says. She quickly picks him up and runs as fast as she can, back to the clubroom. She puts he hand to her ear. "We have a problem." She says.
"What is it?" "Is everything alright?" "What's going on?" She hears from her teammates.
"It's Issei, he's..." She look over to the Issei's unconscious face as she runs. "I need you guys to cover me until I get to the room."
"Ok, I can get to you quickly. But what about Issei? Is he alright?" Akeno asks.
Koneko takes a deep sigh. "His long awaited sleep as begun." At that moment, it seems as though the whole world stopped for everyone in Rias's peerage.